The pandemic pivot nobody predicted and everybody needed: folklore trades stadium pop for Aaron Dessner's woodsmoke arrangements and fictional narrators — the teenage love triangle of "betty," "cardigan" and "august" among the finest writing of her career. Restraint revealed the songwriter the spectacle had obscured. An era-defining left turn.
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